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We Shall Not Stop at Evangelism: Remembering Evangelical John R. W. Stott

By Randall Balmer

…ss at the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland, Stott—with characteristic humility—demolished the decades-old shibboleth that evangelicals should concern themselves only with evangelism and not with social amelioration. “Here then are two instructions, ‘love your neighbor’ and ‘go and make disciples,’” Stott said, referring to the words of Jesus: “What is the relation between the two? Some of us behave as if…

RDBook: Wifely Submission and Christian Warfare

By Kathryn Joyce

…ularly the evangelical, Catholic, and Mormon alliance against reproductive freedom, women’s and gay rights, and church-state separation. A character in this narrative lesser-known outside of evangelical circles is the woman standing beside Schaeffer: his wife and trusted helpmeet, Edith Schaeffer. Edith was the indefatigable hostess of Schaeffer’s American expatriate community in Switzerland, L’Abri (meaning “Shelter”), a training ground and exper…

Let There Be Light: Handwritten Draft of King James Bible Reveals Secrets of Its Creation

By Ed Simon

…an episcopal perspective and the later (completed by Protestant exiles in Switzerland escaping the persecutions of the Catholic Queen Mary) was explicitly Calvinist. The King James companies worked at integrating the orientations of these two editions, but they also had the profound literary example of William Tyndale, who finished the first complete English translation of the New Testament (an accomplishment which led to his execution in 1536)….

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…at a Sabbath worship at an SDA Church in Palm Springs, California. Islam: Between Me and Allah Project Highlights Queer Muslims At Quartz, Loubna Mrie interviews Samra Habib, a queer Pakistani Muslim and creator of the “Between Me and Allah” Tumblr project, which explores “how queer Muslims of all ages have learned to reconcile faith with love.” Quartz reprints photos and interview excerpts from seven queer Muslims whose families come from around…

Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…se in his two decades as bishop of a diocese on the frontlines of tensions between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria. At one point, he looked likely to scale the hierarchy of the Nigerian Church until he criticized the decision by Nigerian bishops to boycott the 2008 Lambeth Conference, the decennial gathering of Anglican bishops from around the world. Idowu-Fearon has continued to urge senior Nigerian bishops to remain in conversation with Anglic…

CERN: Where Particle Physics Collides with Human Sacrifice (Apparently)

By Joseph Laycock

…d to be a human sacrifice at the CERN nuclear research facility in Geneva, Switzerland. Footage taken at night from a CERN office shows a cabal of cloaked figures standing around a statue of Shiva (a gift from the Department of Atomic Energy of India). A woman in white is brought forward and stabbed, prompting the anonymous cameraman to flee in terror. The Telegraph noted the cameraman’s reflection in the office window suggests that he is also wea…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…te in 1950. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Graham met in Montreux, Switzerland, with Norman Vincent Peale and other Protestant leaders to devise a way to derail the campaign of John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, thereby assisting Nixon’s electoral chances; eight days earlier, Graham had sent a letter to Kennedy promising not to raise the “religious issue” in the fall campaign. Although Graham later mended relations with Kennedy, Nixo…

Trump Gives Davos Press Credentials to Racist Conspiracy Outlet. Again.

By Gordon Haber

…ents include, among other things, the details of an overheard conversation between a Saudi official and a political consultant whose breathless non-scoop is that the president doesn’t care much about the peace process (along with speculation that Trump’s assistance to Netanyahu before the Israeli election was “probably at the prompting of Jared Kushner”). Of course, this isn’t the first time that TruNews has been given access to Trump events. It’s…

Literary Critic George Steiner, Whose Views on Anti-Semitism Drew Controversy, Dies at 90

By Ed Simon

…er examined religion, culture, and literature in dozens of books published between 1952 and 2011. A survivor amongst the civilization of Jews who perished in the Holocaust, Steiner was haunted by that devouring, and its divine absence was a constant theme in his corpus. Controversially, Steiner formulated a theory of antisemitism which saw that perennial hatred as a backlash against the exacting, universal moral standards that Judaism introduced t…

What’s So Scary About the Inclusion of ‘God’ in the Russian Constitution?

By Katherine Kelaidis

…r of research and policy at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, told the Congressional commission, “The Russian government maintains, frequently updates and enforces an array of laws that restrict religious freedom…These violations are escalating, spreading through the country and even across its borders.” Indeed, USCIRF has “been calling for the designation of Russia as a [Country of Particular Concern] since 2017… given the R…